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FXUS63 KLSX 010931
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Area Forecast Discussion...Updated Aviation
National Weather Service Saint Louis MO
431 AM CDT Mon Jul 1 2024

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Another dry day is expected today with high temperatures that are
  5 to 10 degrees below normal.

- Hot and humid conditions will return to the area on Tuesday and Wednesday
  with highs ranging from the upper 80s to the middle 90s and
  heat index values over 100 degrees over parts of the area.

- The pattern will become active with several rounds of showers
  and thunderstorms from Tuesday night through the end of the
  week. There is the risk for a few severe thunderstorms over
  northeast Missouri into west central Illinois on Tuesday night
  and across mainly southwest Illinois on Wednesday afternoon.


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.SHORT TERM...  (Through Late Tuesday Afternoon)
Issued at 337 AM CDT Mon Jul 1 2024

Dry weather is expected to continue through at least late tomorrow
afternoon.  The regional radar mosaic is showing that showers and a
few thunderstorms have developed over eastern Kansas in an area of
low level moisture convergence.  This complex will continue to move
east into western Missouri before diminishing as the low level jet
veers and it moves into more stable and dry air.  The next chance
for rain will be late tomorrow afternoon over northeast Missouri
where the GFS/NAM are showing MLCAPES increasing 1500+ J/kg ahead of
a cold front entering northwest Missouri.  The majority of the CAMS
are showing convection moving into the CWA after 00Z, so will keep
just a 20-30% chance for showers and thunderstorms during the
afternoon.

The latest surface analysis is showing high pressure centered over
the western Great Lakes with a ridge extending southward into
central Missouri.  This was keeping winds out of the north to
northeast early this morning which was keeping a steady stream of
drier and cooler air moving into the area.  The latest run of the
HREF is showing the high moving into the northeast CONUS by Tuesday
which will cause winds to turn out of the east today and out of the
south on Tuesday.  Highs today will be in the mid 70s to the lower
80s given the cool start and cold/neutral advection. Temperatures
tonight into Tuesday will warm up with winds turning out of the
south and 850mb temperatures climbing to around 20C.  Lows tonight
will be in the low to mid 60s while highs tomorrow will be in the
low to mid 90s. Dewpoints over central and northeast Missouri will
climb into the lower to middle 70s by tomorrow afternoon pushing
heat index values into the 100-105 range.

Britt

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.LONG TERM...  (Tuesday Night through Sunday)
Issued at 337 AM CDT Mon Jul 1 2024

The chance (50-80%) for showers and thunderstorms will increase over
northeast Missouri and west central Illinois by Tuesday evening.
Thunderstorms including supercells are expected to develop over
western Missouri/southwest Iowa in advance of an upper
trough/attendant cold front that will eventually congeal and move
east into the northern CWA.  The NAM/GFS is showing sufficient CAPE/
shear values for the storms to remain severe with the CAMS showing a
QLCS the most likely storm mode. Damaging winds will be the primary
threat given the CAPE/shear distribution, with a brief tornado and
large hail also possible.

The front will move south and stall over the CWA near I-70 under
quasi-zonal flow aloft.  Coverage of showers and thunderstorms will
generally be scattered with the weak upper trough and attendant low
moving across the area during the day.  This weak lift paired with
MLCAPES increasing into 2500-3000 J/kg range under 30-40 knots of
deep layer shear will be enough that a few of the storms could be
strong to severe, capable of producing large hail and damaging winds
during the afternoon most likely over southwest Illinois.

There is good agreement between the GFS/ECMWF/NAM that another
shortwave trough will move across Missouri and Illinois late
Wednesday night into early Thursday.  This will increase rain
chances into the 70-80% range with the potential for locally heavy
rainfall given that PWATS will be 2+" which is in the upper 99th
percentile for this date.  The front will then move back as warm
front during the day before another trough and attendant cold front
moves across the area on Thursday night.  At this point the LREF is
keeping an upper trough to our north this weekend, but there is
varying solutions in ensembles of additional weak troughs that
will move across the Midwest that keeps 20-30% chances for showers
and thunderstorms.

Britt

&&

.AVIATION...  (For the 12z TAFs through 12z Tuesday Morning)
Issued at 429 AM CDT Mon Jul 1 2024

Dry and VFR conditions are expected through the period. Winds will
remain out of the east to southeast between 5-10 knots.

Britt

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.CLIMATE...
Issued at 344 AM CDT Sun Jun 30 2024

Record Lows
                   7/1

St. Louis      56 in 1937

Columbia       45 in 1892

Quincy         52 in 1988


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.LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...None.
IL...None.
&&

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